CVE-2026-98819

CVE-2026-98819

published October 18, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: btintel: validate DDC record lengths

Parse DDC record lengths in unsigned storage so 0xFF does not wrap.

Reject records smaller than the mandatory three-byte header, records

exceeding U8_MAX, and records exceeding remaining firmware bytes before

issuing Intel_Write_DDC.

This issue was reported by Claude Mythos.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00175 · 6.7th percentile
Published
2026-10-18T20:17Z
References (5)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/069031f569f1681f17e863f48c221a6091b47850 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7df748aa9f9ecab514e5989ed89c9ba35b6e5574 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0fce76873a5e6a6820354409b26693ac5f8b251 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9c15d4d8956df8c564f7c210e4dc5b9b820d97a · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3617369fbb30a4d2e54841ab8e92ca4fa211e56 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 OCT 03:34Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 18 OCT 15:49Z
    Bluetooth: btintel: validate DDC record lengths
    cvelistv5
  • 18 OCT 15:49Z
    Bluetooth: btintel: validate DDC record lengths
    cvelistv5